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CHAPTER XV. MR GORDON AND RUBY RETURN TO THE CiTY. Tun next morning, during breakfast, Myr Gordon asked Ruby, with a sly smile, if she was quite ready to go home. She glanced up, caught his look, and al- most unconsciously her eyes turned upon Waiter. A brilliant flush rose to her check when she found that he was rogarding her earnestly ; then with an offort she rocovered her self-possussion, and repliod, in a matter- of-fact tone : ‘Of course we must go to-day, Robert. Estelle will return and be expecting us ; and besides, I have adressmaker for to-morrow.” ‘Oh, a dressmaker,” repeated Mr Gordon, dryly ; ‘‘ that sedéley the question, then, for I never knew of anything that was allowed to interfero with the arrangements of that important personage.” Mr and Mrs Ruggles received earnest in- vitations to visit the Gordons at their city home, and they promised to avail themselves of the kindness, Breakfast over, the carriago was brought to the door, and the Gordons, bidding their friends good-bye, turned their faces home- ward, Walter was to drive them to the station, as Mr Ruggles’s presencozwas demanded at the mines, but neither he nor Ruby was in a very social frame of mind, for the thought of parting oppressed them both strangely. comicboaks.com Pew p y - . ...